BBC Discovers 'Deportation Fear' But Not 'Coup Culture'
Hondurans in the US are indeed sending more cash home than ever. The BBC, citing 'Trump's immigration crackdown,' connects this surge to fears of deportation. What the report conveniently sidesteps is the critical role US foreign policy played in creating the conditions Hondurans are fleeing. The 2009 coup against democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, for instance, a coup the Obama-Biden
administration (with Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State) effectively legitimized by not cutting aid, plunged Honduras into a decade of violence and instability. That violence and economic collapse, not just fear of Trump, is what drives desperate migration. So, while Hondurans valiantly prop up their families back home with remittances from abroad, the BBC prefers a narrative of 'deportation
fear'—a symptom—rather than tackling the root causes in US foreign policy that created the conditions for this fear and mass displacement in the first place. One might wonder if the complex geopolitical causes of migration are just too inconvenient for primetime news.